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That sucks, Splitgate 1 was a much better game. Still hard to believe they abandoned it early to fasttrack a sequel that removed everything that made the first game fun.

My friends and I played the original a BUNCH. we played splitgate 2 for an evening when it launched and we all deleted it immediately after lmao

“We are exploring the possibility of an offline mode or P2P for our core fans that still want to play the original...but ultimately we need to focus on the future.” This game had LAN, and they removed it, btw!

Istg the alpha i played at gamescom 2017 was LAN

"Between the game servers and 3rd party dependencies, Splitgate 1 is costing us about $40-50k per month" "3rd party dependencies" is doing some legwork here, because I don't know if I could spend $40k/mo on game server cloud compute if I tried

Some hasty projections: with 100 machines (each hosting a single game server process, I'm assuming 6 players/game server) + 200 machines for services (authentication, matchmaking, etc) + 100 TB MySQL database, I'm getting $35k month

I'd really hope that your game server processes could host more than one game each (I chose c6g.xlarges for these!), and that's already capacity for 600 players: Splitgate 1 peaked at 450 players over the past 3 months - there's absolutely no need for this many boxes